Voyages
165 voyages found
Launch and christening as Sequoia II
Laid down at the Mathis Yacht Building Co. in Camden, New Jersey, to a John Trumpy design, the yacht was launched at the end of October 1925 and chris…
The Cadwaladers cruise the Florida coast
In her first seasons the Cadwaladers sailed *Sequoia II* south to the Florida coast, calling at West Palm Beach and Miami.
Sold to William H. Dunning
In 1928 the Cadwaladers sold the yacht to Houston oil executive William H. Dunning, her second private owner.
Purchased by the Department of Commerce
On 24 March 1931 the U.S. Department of Commerce bought the yacht from William H. Dunning for roughly $40,000. Officially she served as a decoy vessel…
President Hoover sails for Cape Henry, Virginia
President Hoover left Washington on 25 April 1931 aboard Sequoia for Cape Henry, Virginia. On 26 April he attended ceremonies there marking the 324th…
President Hoover's voyages aboard Sequoia
Four voyages are documented during the Hoover administration, mixing presidential business with the fishing trips Hoover prized. Sequoia thus became a…
President Hoover's fishing trip down Chesapeake Bay
On 14 August 1932 President Hoover left for the Navy Yard to board Sequoia for a fishing trip down Chesapeake Bay. The President's Calendar records hi…
The Hoovers' Georgia and Florida fishing trip, December 1932
In December 1932, after losing the election, President and Mrs. Hoover spent ten days aboard Sequoia fishing along the coasts of Georgia and Florida,…
Transferred to the Navy and commissioned USS Sequoia (AG-23)
On 25 March 1933 the Department of Commerce transferred the yacht to the Navy, which commissioned her as USS *Sequoia* (AG-23) with Lt. John S. Blue i…
FDR hosts British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Weeks into his first term, Franklin D. Roosevelt took British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald down the Potomac aboard Sequoia. Their conversatio…
FDR's fifty-plus outings on the Potomac
Between 1933 and 1935 Roosevelt made more than fifty recorded outings aboard Sequoia. An elevator was installed so the President, paralyzed by polio,…
An afternoon on the Potomac with family and friends
On 15 October 1933 President Roosevelt left the White House at 12:45 p.m. for the Navy Yard and an afternoon on the Potomac aboard USS Sequoia. The Wh…
President Roosevelt at the New London boat races
President Roosevelt attended the boat races at New London, Connecticut, on 22 June 1934 and spent the night aboard USS Sequoia. The White House stenog…
President Roosevelt's party boards Sequoia
On 6 October 1934 President Roosevelt's party left the White House at 11:40 a.m. to board USS Sequoia. The Usher's log names Col. and Mrs. Edwin M. Wa…
Return from Williamsburg, Virginia
President Roosevelt returned from Williamsburg, Virginia, aboard USS Sequoia on 21 October 1934. The yacht docked at the Washington Navy Yard, and the…
Eleanor Roosevelt aboard USS Sequoia
A 1935 National Archives photograph shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on the deck of USS Sequoia during the yacht's last year as the presidential yac…
President Roosevelt joins Sequoia down river
On 26 May 1935 President Roosevelt drove to the Navy Yard at 11:20 a.m. and boarded a barge that met USS Sequoia down river. With him, the Usher's log…
To Jefferson Island with Vice President Garner
On 13 July 1935 President Roosevelt drove to Annapolis, Maryland, and boarded USS Sequoia for the Jefferson Rod and Gun Club in Chesapeake Bay. Vice P…
Opening the Choptank River bridge at Cambridge, Maryland
On 26 October 1935 President Roosevelt drove to Annapolis and boarded USS Sequoia for Cambridge, Maryland, to open the newly built bridge over the Cho…
Decommissioned; reassigned to the Secretary of the Navy
Sequoia's third and final period in commission ended on 9 December 1935. With USS *Potomac* designated the presidential yacht in March 1936, Sequoia b…
Truman, Attlee, and Mackenzie King discuss control of atomic energy
In November 1945, three months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman took British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Canadian Prime Minister M…
Eisenhower confers aboard with Nimitz, Spaatz and Montgomery
On 16 September 1946 General Dwight D. Eisenhower conferred aboard Sequoia with Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Carl Spaatz and Field Marshal Be…
Sequoia accompanies the presidential yacht Williamsburg
A U.S. Navy photograph dated 2 July 1950 shows USS Sequoia accompanying the presidential yacht USS Williamsburg, under way from an anchorage off Blaki…
The Secretary of the Navy's yacht on the Anacostia River
An official Navy photograph from April 1951 shows Sequoia, then the Secretary of the Navy's yacht, lying off the dock in the Anacostia River.
The Joint Chiefs draft the 'Sequoia Report'
From 6 to 8 August 1953 Admiral Arthur W. Radford and the Joint Chiefs of Staff met aboard Sequoia to shape President Eisenhower's 'New Look' defense…